Guild Wars 2 Reveals the Most Harmless Race - Quaggan

It has been a while since we last saw a new race introduced in Guild Wars 2. In the latest ArenaNet blog, Jeff Grubb gives us a detailed description about quaggan, the normally peaceful race in Guild Wars 2. The article delves into the biological and social aspects of quaggan and the recent history and faith of the race as well as how the dev team designed quaggan as a whole. Below are some excerpts:

The quaggans originally showed up as more roly-poly, almost cartoony creatures, and they were quickly adopted as a cute aquatic race. Their original round appearance proved challenging to rig for animation, so they went through a number of iterations, at one point slimming down and becoming more like dolphins. Later they regained some of their weight but retained a beaver-shaped tail from earlier designs.

Their dual nature came from a concern that, being so cute and cuddly, they would never survive in a deadly outer world. That was when we hit on the idea of their hulking out - "Do not make quaggan angry. You would not like quaggan when quaggan is angry." This brought about the wide-jawed, fang-faced version of the quaggans and, with it, a new question: why wouldn't the quaggans just be quaggan hulks all the time? In a case of art informing lore, we determined that quaggans were embarrassed by this violent behavior. That self-consciousness led to further developments of quaggan attitudes about the individual and community, and the foundations of their society were born. In large part because of those unique societal norms, quaggans are one of the few races in the game that have a distinct speaking style, but that distinction can be difficult. Simply replacing every personal pronoun with "quaggan" is a challenge to clarity. Thankfully, teeth and all, quaggans remain our most cuddly race, so the hard work is easy to endure.

Source: ArenaNet Blog

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